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By MAURICE BERGER

James H. Barker/Steven Kasher Gallery

The best-known images of the civil rights era were often dramatic and shocking, intentionally so, to jar a nation into action. But James Barker provided a quieter, insider’s perspective to the daily struggle.

By JAMES BARRON

A 71-year-old Jeep rolled in, and later out, at the Viennese Opera Ball at the Waldorf Astoria on Friday, a charity gala that was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Austrian state treaty.

Times coverage from the late 1960s and the 1970s shows the South Bronx as a crumbling, desolate and dangerous place. Ángel Franco, a Times photographer, revisited neighborhoods featured in that coverage to see how the view has changed.

European Union officials have struggled to turn things around — debating new treaties, shoring up banks, securing more funding. The people of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia have dealt with economic troubles in various ways.